Sociology 2234E Lecture Notes - Libido, Personal Identity, Psychosexual Development
6 Dec 2013
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Conceptual barriers to the dvlpmnt" of social psych. Conceptual barriers to the development of social psychology. Epistemology: a way of understanding something and that way of understanding something is informed by fundamental views about what constitutes valid knowledge. In terms of social reality, social reality is viewed as a product of human consciousness for ex. symbols (symbolic interaction) Qualitative ; understand reality occurs in social interactions; want to understand persons points of views on things. Realism: ways of explaining and thinking of social processes without reference to individual actors with reference to natural processes -> looking at social structure. For realism, social reality is not a product of human consciousness. Social reality has its own properties; social realities occur outside of the individual. View persons as reactors ; we respond to things, we are an outcome of social structure. Look at large data sets, fixed social sets things that don"t change over time.
